Male reproductive development: gene expression profiling of maize anther and pollen ontogeny

Table 3 Comparison of classification by transcripts abundance in maize mature pollen

		Classification by abundance
	Method	High	Medium	Low	Reference
Number of transcripts	R ₀ t	240	6,000	17,000	Mascarenhas [29]
	Array	230	5,547	4,762	This study
Average copy number	R ₀ t	32,000	1,700	200	Mascarenhas [29]
	Array	64,702	733	109	This study

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